Re: Streams Quandry in Ada95

["Sergey Koshcheyev" <serko84@hotmail.com>]

Hi,

I was the first person to choose the word "confused", so probably I shall
reply to this too. Basically, I meant "intentionally confused", since Ada
compilers are required not to be too smart by the Ada standard. A C/C++
compiler in a similar situation (package name/type name conflict) would
probably understand that the programmer meant the type, since a package name
isn't allowed in that context.

Obligatory note: I'm not saying that C/C++ is better, only that the
compilers have to be smarter :-)

Of course, GNAT wasn't really confused in this situation, in fact the error
message contained a reference to the declaration of the conflicting package.

Sergey

"Robert Dewar" <robert_dewar@my-deja.com> wrote in message
news:91ad7r$ic6$1@nnrp1.deja.com...
> In article <3A37D5BC.982E3BDF@home.com>,
>   "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" <ve3wwg@home.com> wrote:
> > So my problems were probably due to the compiler
> > getting confused in different
> > contexts about what I was trying to do.
>
> I don't see that your compiler was doing anything
> wrong here at all or getting "confused". Perhaps
> you might have been confused by the results of
> injudicious choice of conflicting names, but I
> don't see any basis for claiming that the compiler
> was confused here.
>
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